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Norbanus garouae (Risbec)

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Pteromalidae; Subfamily: Pteromalinae; Genus: Norbanus)

Bruchobius garouae Risbec, 1956. Syntype in Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris (MNHN). Type locality: ? (Cameroon). Transfer by Mitroiu (2015).

Distribution

Cameroon (Risbec, 1956); Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Zimbabwe (Mitroiu, 2015).

Biology

Reared from larva of Adelpherupa sp. (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) on rice (Risbec, 1956) and from Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers. (Poaceae), which is known to be attacked by several species of Crambidae (Mitroiu, 2015).

References

Mitroiu, M.-D. 2015.  Revision of the Afrotropical species of Norbanus Walker (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae). Zootaxa 3969:1–103. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3969.1.1

Risbec, J. 1956. Les parasites des insectes borers du riz ou Cameroun. Agronomie Tropicale, Nogent-sur-Marne 11: 234–237.

Credits

Photographs © Mircea-Dan Mitroiu (Faculty of Biology, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania). First published in Zootaxa:

http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3969.1.1
 

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Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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